You won’t want to miss a word of the deliciously bad dialogue in this Hollywood tale of twisted sisters.
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:9
Rotten:14
Average Rating:4.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's melodramatic, bestselling potboiler. The story tracks the lives of three women -- naive New Englander Anne Welles, aspiring singer Neely O'Hara, and buxom... Film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's melodramatic, bestselling potboiler. The story tracks the lives of three women -- naive New Englander Anne Welles, aspiring singer Neely O'Hara, and buxom beauty Jennifer North -- as they attempt to achieve fame and fortune in Hollywood. But as each starlet either rises to the top or falls to the bottom, she discovers that Hollywood is full of pitfalls and heartbreak. Instead of the happiness they seek, the trio finds only alcoholism, wild sexcapades, tantrums, porno roles, suicide, marital woes, wigs in the toilet, and a dependence on "dolls" -- slang for pills. Which of these ingenues will survive her "trip" through Hollywood? [More]
Starring: Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, Susan Hayward
Starring: Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, Susan Hayward, Martin Milner, Charles Drake, Alexander Davion, Lee Grant, Naomi Stevens, Robert H. Harris, Richard Dreyfuss, Linda Timmerman
Director: Walter Grauman
Director: Walter Grauman
Producer: David Weisbart
Screenwriter: Helen Deutsch, Dorothy Kingsley
Composer: John Williams
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Reviews for Valley of the Dolls
It's an okay premise, but it still is weighted down with so much of the 60s that I find it hard to relate.
It's an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and Peyton Place adumbrations.
It tries to raise itself to the level of sophisticated pornography, but fails. And it is dirty, not because it has lots of sex in it, but because it firmly believes that sex is dirty.
Based on Susann's steamy bestseller, this delightfully absurd and lurid saga of three girls in "corrupt and corrupting" Hollywood has become a cult classic due to its memorably campy lines.
You'll need some kind of a pill to sit through this soap opera dreck.
Jacqueline Susann's 'exposé' of Hollywood gets the cliché-ridden treatment it deserves from Robson.
The choice of Mark Robson, a talented Hollywood journeyman director, for this piece of nonsense was inspired.
Pure trash, based on a trashy book, filled to the brim with trashy performances, now becoming a trashy cult film.
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